PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS, October 1, 2008
8:30 – 11:30 am
Workshop 1: BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF YOU: LEVERAGING YOUR PERSONAL STRENGTHS
Harness your inner power and discover how to empower yourself and others for career and personal fulfillment. Learn how to tap into what you love to do and benefit from it. Realize what you bring to the table and how to stand out from the others. This workshop will be interactive and participants will walk away with action items to follow-up on to begin their movement toward more success.
- Clarify your personal strengths and opportunities
- Set realistic and achievable career and life goals
- Cultivate new business opportunities
Workshop Leader
DeLores Pressley is one of the most respected and sought-after experts on success and confidence. She is a frequent media guest and has been interviewed on every major network (ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX) on top-rated shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Entertainment Tonight.
DeLores’ client list range from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, including Procter and Gamble, Roche Pharmaceutical, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the FirstEnergy Corporation. She authored Clean Out the Closets of Your Life, Advanced Revelations to Modeling and Believe in the Power of You.
Workshop 2: YES, AND! SAY YES TO YOURSELF AND THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW
Authentic confidence is valuable and built over time. Practicing improvisational behaviors can help leaders not only achieve authentic confidence themselves, but also create an environment where their employees and peers can build their authentic confidence as well. This workshop will bring insight into communication skills and ensemble-based creation techniques which will help leaders recognize and build such environments.
- Examine the power of “yes, and…”
- Enhance their listening skills by using exercises that instantly reveal listening behaviors
- Have fun, laugh, take risks and discover their creative gifts and natural leadership ability
Workshop Leader
Since joining the Brave New Workshop Theater in 1997, Katy McEwen has become one of the most prominent female comedians in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. Katy has brought Confidence at the Speed of Laughter to hundreds of women from the corporate and non-profit worlds and has captured the hearts and minds of many business audiences, including Best Buy, Cargill, General Mills, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Target, Thomson, US Bancorp, and Yahoo!.
SUMMIT SCHEDULE: OCTOBER 1-2, 2008
Day 1:
11:30 am – LUNCH
1:00 pm – WELCOME
Michael Knetter, Dean, Wisconsin School of Business
1:15 pm –THE BEST KIND OF CHANGE: NOW MAKE IT HAPPEN
This session will help you accelerate your movement from where you are to where you want to be in your professional and personal life.
- Change, why we love it and dread it
- Developing a plan to “shift perspectives”, “facing fears” and “dumping excuses”
- Identify “what’s holding you back”
- Learn the secrets to “making it happen”
Delores Pressley, Life Strategist, author of Clean Out the Closets of Your Life, Advanced Revelations to Modeling and Believe in the Power of You
2:15 pm –CHAMPIONING PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S SUCCESS
Join Elissa Sangster, Executive Director, Forté Foundation, for a dynamic and interactive panel discussion with senior executives about initiatives in place at their organization to support the continued success of professional women. These executives will also discuss their own personal role in championing women’s professional growth. You will have the opportunity to dialogue with and ask questions of the panel.
Elissa Sangster, Executive Director, Forté Foundation
3:15 pm – BREAK
3:45 pm – BALANCING YOUR CHOICES IN A CRAZY BUSY WORLD
47 actionable ideas in a single hour that will end with a 24 hour step-by-step blueprint to winning the “more with less” challenge.
- 5 Core Principles for running 90mph with your hair on fire and living healthy.
- 1 Core Truth. You can increase your capacity to be better at work and at home in 24 hours or less.
Andy Core, Wellness Expert and Lifestyle Realist
DAY 2:
8:30 am –INTELLIGENT RISKING: AWAKEN THE LEADER WITHIN
Are you still trying to do business the same way?
Is your competition getting tougher?
Does your list of competitive advantages keep shrinking?
Are you clear about how you define success?
Do you try to play it too safe?
Are you climbing the right mountains?
During this presentation, you will step beyond theory and become actively involved in and focused on the challenges you are tackling in your own life. You will explore the risks you face, how you define success and where you'll find the courage to see it through. You will also look at the critical questions every person should ask themselves to ensure they are taking the right risk in the right way. You'll leave this program challenged to take those risks that will make a difference to your business, your customers and yourself.
Barbara Stoker, former executive for Disney, Hallmark, Mattel and Coors; author of Positive Risk, A Woman with a Minute…, Intelligent Risking for Women and LINK Thinking
9:30am – BREAK
10:00 am – WOMEN’S LONG MARCH FOR EQUALITY AND DEMOCRAZY IN LATIN AMERICA: A COMPLEX REGIONAL AND GLOBAL AGENDA
- The diversity of class and ethnicity
- The common agendas and the achievements
- The pending agendas
- The challenges for building the internationalist perspective in women’s/feminist movements in a global world, given strong inequalities in resources and power
Virginia “Gina” Vargas, Peruvian activist, author, professor and sociologist
11:00 am – MILITARY LEADERSHIP IDEALS IN A CORPORATE WORLD
- It Begins with an Oath
- Constant Change is a Way of Life
- Everyone Knows Your Name…and Your Salary
- Sure, the Uniform Helps
- The Courage and the Confidence
- The Sacred Trust
Nori Ann Reed, Captain, United States Navy (retired)
12:00pm – LUNCH
1:00 pm –THE POWER OF NEGOTIATION: GET WHAT YOU REALLY WANT
Whether they want higher salaries, better career opportunities or more help at home, women are much less likely than men to ask for what they want. Sara Laschever will look at the causes of this phenomenon and the shockingly high price paid by women, their families, and their employers if they don¹t take steps to address it. Drawing on research from her new book, she’ll describe a four-step program to help women overcome their reluctance to advocate for themselves.
Sara Laschever, co-author of Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want
2:00 pm – BLAZING TRAILS ON THE CORPORATE LADDER
One leader’s experience of helping others while helping herself.
Rosalyn “Roz” Mallet, Interim CEO, President, Caribou Coffee
2:45pm – BREAK
3:15pm –CONFIDENCE AT THE SPEED OF LAUGHTER: LEAVING YOUR CREATIVE FOOTPRINT, HEELS AND ALL
Katy McEwen draws on her extensive experience in the improvisational comedy theater world and shares how women can use the principles of improvisation to improve their confidence, win support for their ideas and influence others.
- Gain tools to trust your own ideas and innovative touch
- Become more confident in your abilities to be innovative and creative
- Practice using improvisational tools to find your most genuine confident you
Katy McEwen, Improv Comedian, Brave New Workshop Theatre.
4:00 pm – PROGRAM WRAP-UP